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Page 75:-
Hall, standing in a noble park on the opposite side of the
road, built about 1786, and remarkable for the elegance and
convenience of its apartments. The gardens and walks on the
woody banks of the Calder are beautiful; and the view by sea
and land is extensive. Among many curious pieces of
antiquity brought from Dalegarth Hall, in Eskdale, is a
carved bedstead made about 1345, having the arms of the
Austhwaite family quartered with the Stanleys. The Church
stands in the park, and is a pretty stone building, well
paved, and containing some stained glass brought from
Dalegarth.
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Calder Bridge to Cockermouth and
Keswick
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It is usual for tourists to proceed direct over Copeland
forest to Ennerdale Bridge and village, and thence by
Lamplugh to Lowes Water; but we shall endeavour to carry
them a more interesting route.
On the right, on pursuing the road, is the white village of
Hale; and before you lies, in a fine agreeable vale,
fertilized by the Ehen,
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Egremont
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EGREMONT,
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Egremont Castle
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With its ruined castle crowning the northern banks. The
heights above the town conceal beneath their surface a
productive iron mine. The bridge over the river, and the
castle above it, form a romantic scene; indeed, the town and
castle, from many points on the Ehen, displays pleasing
assemblages of the picturesque. The castle, situated upon a
rising ground, flanked on the south by the Ehen, was pro-
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-- Egremont Castle
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-- "Egremont" -- Egremont
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-- "Hale" -- Haile
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-- "Ponsonby Hall" -- Ponsonby Old Hall
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-- St Bridget's Church
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